I've got about a dozen super hot chilli plants like Carolina reapers, Trinidad scorpions and ghost chilli growing in my backyard, as well as some milder varieties like Jalapenos and Habaneros and they are starting to flower and produce fruit.

Does anyone else on here grow Chillis?

If so, how do you utilise your crop to minimize wastage?

Where's Underoath?
His video of himself chomping into some hot chilli's was a beauty.
Think it may have been Carolina Reapers, not sure but I know he is a chilli fan.

Freeze em.

Freezing them whole works if you like to eat them chopped. Milder varieties that is.

Frankly the hot varieties you grow are not directly edible on a regular basis in my opinion. Even a small piece in a meal can get stuck and wreak havoc. The only use I had for them was to make a hot sauce out of them. ie dilute the suckers with tons of tomatoes, garlic, spices and vinegar etc. cook it and then blend it into a sauce and jar it. Even then I still have heaps of that left from seasons ago.

I stick with varieties that have good taste, healthy fruit and enough heat to zing but not be stupid. Birds eyes are still a good mainstay, but I mainly grow a variety that is slightly lower heat than a birdseye, but 4-5 times as big and really nice flavour. Great balance of heat and flavour and ease of picking. Extras go into the freezer in bags and are pulled out in winter as needed. I have also dried a lot and have a big container of flakes.

Dry them or dry and smoke them (not in a bong)if you do smoke them in a bong please video and post

make jalapeno sauce, boil them up with half a bottle of tequila bit of salt/pepper/sugar and blend up afterwards.
divine.

anything hotter is too much, all about blokes being tuff but can't taste your food.

I grow chillis, but I don't get the point of growing the ones that are just too hot to handle. But each to their own.

The reds I'll dry and chop, seeds and all if I don't get round to eating them fresh. Store them in a jar, as long as they're properly dry they'll keep for ages.

The jalepenos I pick green and soak overnight in a salt slurry (couple of tablespoons of salt in cold water) with a bowl on top to hold them under. You can miss that step, but they are heaps crunchier for doing it.

Next day drain and slice 'em and put into jars.

In a pot (not aluminium) mix 1/2 water and 1/2 vinegar (apple cider or a mix of that and some other vinegar, enough to about 3/4 fill the jar/s you're using) plus a teaspoonful of salt (per jar) and bring it to the boil.

Then pour it over the chillis, make sure they're completely covered. If you're short of the vinegar mix either make more or just use that not quite full jar first. Bung on the lid straight away. If you can, shove 'em in the back of a cupboard and forget about them for a few weeks before you crack your first jar. Try and get the jars with the lids that have that bubble in the centre, they'll suck down and create a seal as it cools, keeps for ages. Otherwise store them in the fridge.

I grow chillis too but i don't know what type they are. They're red and hot. Currently have about 8 plants starting out from seed off last seasons crop. I harvest and make sweet chilli sauce. Depending on the ring burn factor i' may use less chillis and add a red capsicum. Without the capsicum i end up with "Ring Burner" sweet chilli and with capsi i finish with Mild sweet chilli sauce. Family loves it. My wife recons i should sell it but i can't be assed. Do it right and it lasts for ages. I get the recipe off the net

Best names for chilli sauces too (seen in butcher here):

Ring Burner
Smack My Arse and Call Me Cindy (huh )
Sh!t The Bed


and my all time favourite:

Blurter Burner

I got pepper sprayed last week and wow Ill be good from now on

I have Ghost Chilli and another variety which I don't know what it is called. It shapes like a lantern. The flesh is very thin. It is not as hot as the Ghost Chilli, but still, F-king hot if you ask me !

Sometimes I think it is a moot point to grow very very hot chilli like the Ghost Chilli. Chilli is supposed to be good for you, but with the very very hot ones like the Ghost Chilli, you can't even put half of it in your dish. Any more than than, you will suffer badly the following morning ! There is hardly any benefit from half a chilli, is there ?

By the way, I am sweating merely thinking about the Ghost Chilli !

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chrispy said...
Dry them or dry and smoke them (not in a bong)if you do smoke them in a bong please video and post

Haha
Do you mean like this bloke

nypost.com/video/man-smokes-the-worlds-hottest-pepper-from-a-bong-and-temporarily-goes-blind/

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Mark _australia said..

Best names for chilli sauces too (seen in butcher here):

Ring Burner
Smack My Arse and Call Me Cindy (huh )
Sh!t The Bed


and my all time favourite:

Blurter Burner

We used to make "CHERNOBLE" chilli chutney, couldn't use regular preserving jars as the lids corroded through in no time at all.

Sweet Chilli Sauce!

I had some black chilli's (actually dark purple coloured) that were very small and hot as f**k.

Made a sweet chilli sauce up and added some black food colouring... called it... Black Death.

Incredible on a mature cheddar cheese and cracker.

Very picante without being too over the top.

Make chilli jam, and keep for stir fry cooking.

I have grown these over the past 3 seasons.


7 Pot Congo
7 Pot Burgundy
7 Pod / Pot Pink Chilli
Trinidad 7 Pod/Pot Family 7 Pod /
7 Pot White Chilli
Black Naga
Brazil Star
Birds Eye
Bhutlah Chock
Brain Strain Yellow
Carolina Reaper
Devils Penis
Datill Devil's Tongue Yellow
Chock Habanero
Orange Magnum
Peach Habanero
Red Habanero
Yellow Lighting
Madballz Naga Viper
Naga 7 Brown
Naga Serpent
Neil Scorpion
Goat Chilli
Indian Scorpion
Lemon Drops
Long Turkish
Purple Ghosts
Purple UFO
Poblano Sari
Tobasco
Trinidad Scorpion
Chock Trinidad
Scorpion Mustard
White Fatalii Chilli
Zimbabwe Birds Eye

Chilies were so much easier to grow in WA.
Simply due to No Fruit Fly.. The little buggers destroyed my crops last year. I'd say I only recovered 1 or 2% of my crop.

If I wanted to utilise my crop to minimize wastage. I'd do the following things.

1) Plant 15 seeds of each variety, keep the strongest 2 and bin/give away the rest.
2) Grow your plants in 10L pots with quality soil.
3) Cut the plant in half when it is about 25cms tall. Plant explodes out sideways with new growth.
4) Feed feed feed.
5) I don't give your plants full sun as it only takes 1 hot day to burn all your leaves off. This is also why pots are a great idea.
6) I don't use sprays, so buy some mosquito nets to cover your fruit.
7) Earthworms

You can tip your chilli plants in thee growing stage, than every branch gives out multiple chill is.
My mates Italian dad used to remove a heap of the flowers, he reckoned the fruit would get bigger and grow better , and would extend harvest time. Sometimes by flowering again it would stagger the time chill is on the plant were available. I've tried with mixed results, got a heirloom chilli seeds off e bay a few years ago and it just pumped chillis out through all seasons, didn't get excess but anytime I wanted a few for cooking or chilli mussels there were plenty

I just string them up on a cotton thread whole and dry them in the kitchen hanging from the ceiling.

This was a few years ago.

^^^^
Nominated for & won Best Youtube Video EVER.

Watch it & weep

is the flavour of the super hot ones quite bitter? reading the internets, alot of people seem to agree the nicest "flavoured" hotter varieties are the pequin, siling (philipines) and tepin.

I found some tepins and siling growing wild in the bush and used the seeds to grow more. The tepins are juicy, almost sweet, but the seeds are small and get stuck in your teeth, and even your teeth feel like they are burning. The plant always has fruit and seems to be quite hardy compared to the other varieties i'm trying to grow. apparently it's the ancestor of all other chili varieties??

regarding the fruit fly in QLD, what symptoms do you see if your chili fruit/plant has it?

freezing the fruit seems to do well

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Haircut said..
regarding the fruit fly in QLD, what symptoms do you see if your chili fruit/plant has it?

educated guess .........if you see fruitfly breakdancing, it would be fair to say they had a nibble.

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djt91184 said..
I got pepper sprayed last week and wow Ill be good from now on

I may have obtained some pepper spray and gave it a test shot into the kitchen sink.
Bloody hell !!!
I love hot chilli but for the safety of wife and children we had to evacuate the house for a couple hours with windows open.
That stuff is strong !!!
How it can sometimes not work on enraged people when sprayed in face is beyond me.

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Harrow said...
Make chilli jam, and keep for stir fry cooking.

Just made a batch for my cafe, took an hour and thirty,
Prime porterhouse steak on toasted Turkish, fresh greens salad, baked onions , truss tomatoes, and chilli jam, stunning
Man food

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Underoath said..
I have grown these over the past 3 seasons.


7 Pot Congo
7 Pot Burgundy
7 Pod / Pot Pink Chilli
Trinidad 7 Pod/Pot Family 7 Pod /
7 Pot White Chilli
Black Naga
Brazil Star
Birds Eye
Bhutlah Chock
Brain Strain Yellow
Carolina Reaper
Devils Penis
Datill Devil's Tongue Yellow
Chock Habanero
Orange Magnum
Peach Habanero
Red Habanero
Yellow Lighting
Madballz Naga Viper
Naga 7 Brown
Naga Serpent
Neil Scorpion
Goat Chilli
Indian Scorpion
Lemon Drops
Long Turkish
Purple Ghosts
Purple UFO
Poblano Sari
Tobasco
Trinidad Scorpion
Chock Trinidad
Scorpion Mustard
White Fatalii Chilli
Zimbabwe Birds Eye

Chilies were so much easier to grow in WA.
Simply due to No Fruit Fly.. The little buggers destroyed my crops last year. I'd say I only recovered 1 or 2% of my crop.

If I wanted to utilise my crop to minimize wastage. I'd do the following things.

1) Plant 15 seeds of each variety, keep the strongest 2 and bin/give away the rest.
2) Grow your plants in 10L pots with quality soil.
3) Cut the plant in half when it is about 25cms tall. Plant explodes out sideways with new growth.
4) Feed feed feed.
5) I don't give your plants full sun as it only takes 1 hot day to burn all your leaves off. This is also why pots are a great idea.
6) I don't use sprays, so buy some mosquito nets to cover your fruit.
7) Earthworms

Looks like u know your chilli stuff
They positively look nasty
Love your chilli buffness

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Haircut said..
is the flavour of the super hot ones quite bitter? reading the internets, alot of people seem to agree the nicest "flavoured" hotter varieties are the pequin, siling (philipines) and tepin.


regarding the fruit fly in QLD, what symptoms do you see if your chili fruit/plant has it?

freezing the fruit seems to do well

I don't eat the hot ones unless they are in a sauce. Reapers and Scorpions/Nagas will make you vomit on their own. Not a good move.


So, with Fruit Flys, If your chilies start rotting on the plant- fruit fly maggots are in your chilies. Cut one open and see, just be careful as they jump.

Now if you do have a FF infestation, you have a big problem as chances are ALL your fruit has been infected.

I refuse to use insecticides, so I use a physical netting barrier. Seems to be working for me so far this season.

This season (spring) Richgro bought out a new natural fruit fly product that was tested extensively in the Swan Valley with fantastic results. It will kill QLD fruit fly as well. Being all natural (garlic and pymethrin) you can spray it a day or two before harvest and its fine.

I still use better fruit fly traps (ie 1 trap is enough for residential use) but this Richgro spray is a must if you are growing edibles.

Crazy demand for the super hot stuff like Carolina Reapers at work. I grew some last year but given Nandos mild sauce is still pretty hot, i never had the balls to try.

Can someone please explain how fruit flies can survive in super hot chilli ? I begin to sweat merely looking at a cut up Ghost Chilli

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Imax1 said...

djt91184 said..
I got pepper sprayed last week and wow Ill be good from now on

I may have obtained some pepper spray and gave it a test shot into the kitchen sink.
Bloody hell !!!
I love hot chilli but for the safety of wife and children we had to evacuate the house for a couple hours with windows open.
That stuff is strong !!!
How it can sometimes not work on enraged people when sprayed in face is beyond me.

Its ****ing intense...I couldnt open my right eye for over two days and it still not recovered.
The only way you can walk through it is if you are so ****ed up on substances that when you get a wiff you turn into a bear.

Many animals do not have receptors for the capsicum heat.

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saltiest1 said..
Many animals do not have receptors for the capsicum heat.

Thank you. Can I deduce then criminals who didn't respond to repeated capsicum spray didn't have such receptors? Going one step further, may be they are not quite human